Shifting Dominant Narratives of Teacher Development: New Directions for Expanding Access to the Educator Workforce Through Grow Your Own Programs

Grow Your Own (GYO) programs are designed to recruit high school students, paraeducators, community organizers and parents, and/or career changers from the local community to join the educator workforce. When considering the nontraditional teacher pools that may enter the profession through GYO programs, commonly held assumptions about who teachers are, how they are developed, and what is most important for supporting their growth are challenged. This article reframes conventional narratives in teacher education by exploring the ways in which GYO programs offer counternarratives that reimagine teacher development by valuing (a) intersectional views of ethnoracial diversity, (b) resilience as an important teacher characteristic, (c) multiple modes of assessment as evidence of teacher learning, (d) ethnoracially diverse and community-based teacher educators, (e) culturally responsive pedagogy and place-based learning, and (f) local community school commitment.

Conditional Regard in the Classroom: A Double-Edged Sword

Teachers’ conditional positive and negative regard are widely endorsed teaching practices aimed to enhance students’ involvement and achievement in school. Previous research has mostly tapped the need frustration and harmful psychological well-being implications of these practices. Yet knowledge of their specific effects on school engagement is scant. This study investigated the association between students’ perceptions of homeroom teachers’ conditional positive and negative regard and their behavioral engagement, while considering the levels at which these practices are conceptualized and operate (a teacher characteristic and a student characteristic). Participants were n = 2533 students from 107 classes in the 7th to 10th grades. Multilevel analysis found conditional positive regard was positively associated with school engagement while conditional negative regard was inversely related. These findings were obtained at both the within- and between-class levels. Based on the findings, we argue conditional regard is a double-edged sword. Consistent with previous research, we suggest conditional negative regard has an undermining effect, and we point to conditional positive regard’s potential to enhance engagement. Lastly, we discuss the importance of the level of analysis and the alignment of theory with measurement.

Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Reference Norm Orientation and Cheating in the Classroom

Students’ cheating is a serious problem: It undermines the chance to adequately promote, support, and evaluate them. To explain cheating behavior, research seldom focuses on perceived teachers’ characteristics. Thus, we investigate the relationship between students’ cheating behavior and an important teacher characteristic, individual reference norm orientation (IRNO; i.e., the tendency to evaluate students based on their performance development over time). We examined cheating on written exams, on homework, and in oral exams among N = 601 students (64.2% girls; Mage = 16.07 years) in N = 31 language classes. Results from doubly manifest multi-level analyses showed that, on the classroom level, cheating on written exams and on homework occurred less frequently the more the classroom of students perceived their teachers as having an IRNO. We found no further evidence for other cheating factors or student characteristics. This supports the idea that teacher characteristics are associated with some forms of students’ cheating behavior.

Students and teachers’ perception of an effective clinical nurse teacher characteristics: A comparative study

Objective: This study aims to determine the level of perception of nursing students and teachers on the effective clinical nurse teacher characteristics and find if there is a significant difference between the level of perception of nursing students and teachers according to their demographic features. Methods: This study employed a descriptive - comparative design. Simple random sampling was undertaken and a questionnaire developed by Brown (1981) was utilized in gathering information from the participating 244 nursing students and 46 teachers as respondents. Frequency, percentage, t-test, F-test in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used in the analysis of data.Results: Most of the participating nursing students in the study are aged 18-22-year-old, female, and unmarried while most teachers were more than 46-year-old, female, and married. Among the three indicators of effective clinical teacher characteristics, the teachers consider professional competence, relationships with the students’ most important, and personal attributes as very important while the nursing students perceived all as very important. A significant difference exists in the level of perception of both groups of respondents on different indicators. However, in certain demographic profile, specifically gender and marital status there seem to be no significant difference but it exists with age.Conclusions: Both nursing students and nurse-teachers perceived that an effective clinical teacher characteristic has a significant influence on the clinical learning course of students. The perception varies significantly with age and this would suggest that as the nurse grows older and gain more experience his/her perceptions matures.

The Teacher’s Competency Test In Aswering Education Quality In Indonesia

Teacher’s competence was asked the question, The teacher is the key to get the Education quality in Banjarmasin. Answering the quality of education is to see the teacher performance problems.The etnografi method was describing of the teacher characteristic and phenomenon of pedagogical competence and professional competence through qualitative approach toward the group of the teacher with qualitative design, to identification group of a teacher. The data stated by Education Department of Banjarmasin. The participants were 99 teachers; 24 male and 75 female teachers. The data took by observation, interview and document. The resulted; the teacher competency test quality; Part-time teachers 28.28%, rank and class <IV / a 54 545%, Chronological age <53 years of 67.67%, not certified 33.33%, Education <S-1 20:20%, private school 24.24%, Non S-1 guidance and counseling 24.24% , graduates under 2005 59.59%, Pedagogic value <60 97.97%, professional value <65 55 545%.From deep interview; the teacher lack of reading books and browsing, they also lack independence to enhance their competence, out of date the technology, over 150 student-teacher ratios, guidance and counselling are considered public, cite the extra hours for subjects, the teaching profession is no longer their eager self

Profil Mutu Lulusan Madrasah

The research is conducted to know the quality of madrasah graduate profile seen from many aspects or variables, namely, “student academic” and “non-academic achievement”, and “the perception of consumer (parents and teachers) toward the graduate and profile of input” and the quality of madrasah graduate” such as learning medium, the student and teacher characteristic, and the school management as the supporting factors. the research method used is survey with quantitative approach. the result of the research indicates that generally madrasah graduates are not be able to complete with public school graduates-both academically and non-academically. however, the perception of educational consumer related to students’ attitude, participation I religious activities, student creativity, etc. is perceived as good enough. they feel satisfied enough to the madrasah graduate. the school management in madrasah is also good enough but it has not been supported by the infrastructurals input, namely such as physical building condition, library and laboratory, and so forth.

When Unified Teacher Pay Scales Meet Differential Alternative Returns

This paper quantifies the extent to which unified teacher pay scales and differential alternatives produce opportunity costs that are asymmetric in math and verbal skills. Data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond 1997 and 2003 follow-ups are used to estimate a fully parametric, selection-corrected wage equation for nonteachers, which is then used to predict the wages that teachers would have received in a nonteaching career. The difference between actual teacher salaries and this prediction can be considered the opportunity cost of teaching. Moving up one standard deviation in math SAT score increases the opportunity cost of teaching by $1,500 to $2,000 four years after college, rising to $3,000 to $3,800 ten years after college. Moving up one standard deviation in verbal SAT score increases the opportunity cost by $300 four years after college, and by $1,300 ten years after college. The teacher salary gap is also decomposed into policy versus teacher-characteristic components.

KOMPETENSI PROFESIONAL GURU PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM (PAI) DI SEKOLAH UMUM TINGKAT SMA/ SMK KABUPATEN MAGELANG

The problems on this research are: (1) How is the Islamic Religious Teacher characteristic of SMA/SMK in Magelang? (2) How is the professional competence of Islamic Religious Teacher of SMA/SMK in Magelang? (3) What factors influence the Islamic Religious Teacher professional competence of SMA/SMK in Magelang? This research was applying qualitative method by developing etno-methodology model. The subject of the research was Islamic Religious Teacher in 11 different SMA/SMK. Observation and interview was applied to collect the data. The finding of the research showed that: 1) from 11 teachers, ten are graduated from Islamic teacher education and one from Syariah. They have more than ten year experiences in teaching. 2) They all have religious, social, and professional religious background. 3) The dominant factor influences their professional competence is on teaching experiences and motivation on doing their job.